[Parted-maintainers] Bug#276721: tries to open non-existing device files and hangs

[Eduard Bloch]

#include <hallo.h>
* Sven Luther [Sat, Oct 16 2004, 11:19:35AM]:

> Mmm, this is probably a upstream issue, and not likely to be fixed befo=
re the
> sarge release.
>=20
> I will investigate on monday.

Okay.

> Could you give me more details of your setup, when it does happen, and =
why in
> hell you are using devfs. Only d-i should be using devfs, and there has=
 be no
> report of this kind of problem in d-i, but then maybe not many have tri=
ed vfat
> resizing in d-i ?

Ehm, D-I? Did I say anything about D-I? I was normal operation on a
normal system. I have hda1 (15GiB, FAT32), and an extended container
(hda1) with one logical partition (hda5, XFS filesystem, 15GB). I
umounted hda1 and used parted to resize it to 14.5GiB (to get space for
a swap partition). Well, and after moving the data, it stoped, as
described. After I have created the device nodes part1...16 manually in
/dev/ide/..., it was ready in few seconds. So it did really hang on this
position, trying to open device nodes that did not exist and failing. I
expect exactly the same problem on other /dev directories where only
device nodes for existing partitions are created.

Regards,
Eduard.
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